Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
spicy thoughts
*Is* cycling actually more environmentally friendly than public transit, what with the energy needs of the creature powering the bike?
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Dang, @PCMag really wants to make sure consumers know about every flavor of home surveillance Jeff Bezos has on offer. I'm sure it's an independent editorial decision.
By "depending on how you travel there" I mean stuff like "obviously don't drive there unless you actually intend to buy a trunk worth of stuff, instead take the bike or public transport or something".
PSA: If you're in Europe and frequently buy things from AliExpress, and there is an Action store near you (https://www.action.com/), check if they have the things you need first.
There's a lot of overlap in type of products and pricing levels, it can save a bunch of transport emissions (depending on how you travel there), and it's frequently cheaper too.
Ensuring A/C efficiency by slamming a door closed
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Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.
> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?
There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.
> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?
None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.
> But are you / they in the cloud?
No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.
> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.
*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*
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a "hypothetical" question to the reader, capitalism
Suppose that the reader is living in a country where there are just less jobs than people. Thanks, automation and amount of people that exist.
However, the country has not realized that with this, the reason for having capitalism and forcing everyone to work just sorta disappeared. Therefore, the reader is still forced to live through the inhumane bullshit that is not getting money because they can't get a job, and some unemployment agency constantly nags them to get a job.
What would the reader do?
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Why everyone is talking about gravy today
It's an anti-scraping protest. Bots are scraping Mastodon(.social I guess)'s trending topics list and feeding it into the slop machine. Thread: https://godforsaken.website/@pisscotheque/114772705899034101
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sci-fi
The mood in the observation deck was weird. On one hand the launch had gone off flawlessly, all five massive ships made orbit perfectly. No one had been left behind, all the work from the last few years had been validated.
On the other hand the launch had to happen a month early, forced to flee rather than fight the might of the United states military. Rather than let a group like us live in peace and build ourselves a new home they'd choosen to invade.
On yet another hand there was a feeling of anticipation. We were due to be in sight of our launch site when the eraser triggered in a minute or so.
When the hydrogen bomb triggered it would prevent anyone finding any clues accidentally left behind, and it would send a loud message about our capabilities.
But it would also remove the only place these great ships could safely land. Not just burning our bridge back but literally nuking it. No returning.
This better work.
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the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.
My Pinecil is rusting?!
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KDE is unfortunately limited in what kind of software it can develop, as not every title is going to have a c that you can replace with a k
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I admin a local singles group on Facebook, and this is something I've learnt..
Maybe it's not that you're having trouble finding the right woman. Maybe you are the wrong man. For everyone.
For the love of everything good and holy, go the fuck to therapy.
#relationship #dating #Facebook #FacebookGroups #RegionalAustralia
Also discovered that the Pinecil will, in fact, work on 5v USB - it just heats up so hilariously slowly that you'd probably only bother doing so in an emergency. Worked a lot better on 12V PD!
Today's projects: tidying up the hackerspace@home (ie. electronics workshop) so that it's usable again, and finally replacing the broken shell on my old TS100 soldering iron with the fancy blue replacement shell that's been sitting in a box for like 5 years by this point.
Also, yesterday's project was to make a universal clothes folding board from cardboard and packing tape, that's sized exactly to my wardrobe shelves. And it stores as an approximately 25x50cm rectangle, 4 layers thick. It works quite well!
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Well, that's new - some glue spilled over the side when I was gluing together a 3D print a while ago, and it seems to have... stolen the pigment from the plastic???
The glue (after peeling it off) now has a bluish tint, and the plastic has lost some of its color saturation in the exact spot of the glue, and I'm certain that there's no glue left on it
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transgender is like 6 full time jobs u gotta be a voice actor a pharmacist a clinical psychologist a fashion designer a women’s studies major and to top it off u gotta fuck and riot and shit
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did you know there’s a secret delicious and easy #gravy recipe that’s used by 40% of police? just search for “police 40 percent” to find it 😋
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
